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Joanne Blinco is a social worker and BSW graduate with a focus on First Nations and feminist practice. For 30 years, Joanne acted as a family outreach worker and child protection worker with an emphasis on rural and remote communities for the Ministry of Child and Family Service, and has done elder abuse case management in Lethbridge. As current AEAAC Executive Director, Joanne is responsible for managing, meetings with case managers, grant funding, partnerships, and day-to-day operations.

Lilian Omorefe is a community health professional with a background in elder care, education, and health promotion. As AEAAC Safe Spaces Navigator, she collaborates with case managers and housing providers across Alberta to establish safe spaces for older adults experiencing, or at risk of elder abuse. In addition to her current role, Lilian has also lectured in health, safety, and environmental education at the University of Benin, Nigeria.

Inspired by her personal experience with aging parents, Jennifer Wells trained as an elder mediator and now works as AEAAC Community Trainer, promoting the "It's Not Right!" program while supporting elder mediation through the Safe Spaces Initiative.

For the past 25 years, Elizabeth Ly has specialized in the areas of diversity, inclusion and hate/bias. As AEAAC Education Coordinator, she works with Case Managers and their Community Coordinated Response teams across Alberta to care for their educational needs and/or interests. This includes the coordination and delivery of the "Taking Action Against Elder Abuse" training that is delivered to service providers working in elder abuse throughout the province.

Myrtle Beaulieu is a proud Métis woman passionate about providing education and building awareness in Indigenous communities. As AEAAC Indigenous Resource Liaison, she works to strengthen relationships within northern Indigenous communities and provide tools to address elder abuse. Myrtle is a strong advocate on issues of injustice and a valuable source of information on how we can alter the current perspective to better support Indigenous people.

As AEAAC Indigenous Liaison, April Tucker focuses on amplifying the voices of Indigenous Elders who have experienced—or remain at risk of—mistreatment and abuse while also carrying the ongoing impacts of intergenerational trauma. Representing the province's southern communities, she focuses on raising awareness and sharing knowledge within Indigenous Nations to build understanding, strengthen relationships, and support respectful engagement. Although focused on the healing of Alberta's Indigenous, April hails from the Cayuga Nation from Six Nations of the Grand River, with ancestral ties to the lands now known as Ontario.